There are several methods of adding advertisements on your Community both in HTML and as image-based ads. They are placed automatically in areas of your choosing.
Create Ads
Advertisements can be placed on you site in either image or plain HTML in Advertisements in the AdminCP.
You can add a new advertisement by clicking on the "Create new" button shown in the image above. Once you have done this you will be presented with the various options for creating an image. You can either enter HTML code or you can click "Upload Images" in order to upload an ad image.
In the example below, you will see you can chose to enter separate HTML code to appear on secure pages.
Once you have added your image or advertisement code, you can then choose the location and permissions for your advert to be shown. You can select more than one location for an ad to show and criteria for when and how long to show the ad.
When using Google Adsense adverts you may notice that page navigation no longer works as expected. This is caused by Google requiring that adverts are not loaded using AJAX. To resolve this issue you can disable AJAX pagination using the built in theme settings.
Ajax Pagination
Should you wish to disable an advert at any time, you can do this by clicking the "Enabled" text in the list, which will then change to "Disabled"
Disable/Enable
Manual Ad Placement
You can put advertisements in several pre-defined locations but it is also possible to create additional locations which you can insert by modifying the HTML code for your community or use in the Pages application.
First, create your advertisement as normal. For the "Show the advertisement" setting, select "Define your own location" and enter a key into the box (it can be whatever you like). You can then later use the same key for other advertisements that you want to show in this location.
Now you will need to insert a special tag in the HTML code where you want the advertisement to show. The code to insert is:
{advertisement="KEY"}
Replace "KEY" with whatever key you used.
In your theme
Go to Themes and click the "Edit HTML and CSS" button for your default theme. The specific template you need to edit and where to make the change depends on where you want the advertisement to show. For this example, if you wanted the advertisement to show in the profile under the header, go to the core -> front -> profile -> profileHeader template and insert the code at the very bottom.
Since each theme has its own HTML templates, you will now need to repeat this for each theme.
In pages or blocks
The tag can be inserted in a page, block or template within the Pages application. Simply insert the tag wherever you want the advertisement to show.
Control when Ads Show
Using the responsive CSS classes available in IPS4, it is possible to set your ads up so that different content displays depending on the device size.
This only applies to ads you create yourself. If you use an ad service (such as Google Adsense), you should find out how that service supports responsive ads.
For example:
<div class='ipsResponsive_showDesktop ipsResponsive_showTablet ipsResponsive_block'>
This ad shows on desktop and tablets, but *not* phones
</div>
<div class='ipsResponsive_showPhone ipsResponsive_block'>
This ad shows on phones, but *not* desktop and tablets
</div>
Ads in email
Introducts in version 4.4 of the Invision Community platform, is the ability to show your ads within your community emails, as well as on your site. Within the same email section, you will see an Email Advertisements tab, where you can ad advertisements which will only show within emails.
Ads within Emails can be restricted to only show within specific email types. As you can see in the image below, I have changed this ad only to be sent when the email is from a Topic, such as a topic reply notification.
Email Ads
